Church Planting Journey

Off to a Week of Missions

David — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:33:58 +0000

Carissa is spending the week in Tyler, TX working with homeless children.

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50+ Hours of FREE Church Planting Audios via Exponential Podcast

David — Thu, 27 May 2010 15:19:22 +0000

Exponential 2010 – Podcast and Blog Posts

We had an amazing experience with over 3,400 church planting leaders gathered together for Exponential 2010 in Orlando! Over 90% of this year’s attendees said they’d attend again and were pleased with the overall conference experience, speakers, and main sessions. Whether you attended or not, we’ve made over 50 hours of teaching / training from the conference available via the Exponential Podcast. Click here to subscribe via iTunes. Click here for a comprehensive compilation (over 90 pages) of blog posts highlighting various speakers at Exponential 2010.

Exponential 2011 – On The Verge: Old Truths in New Paradigms

The Exponential Conference and the Verge Conference are joining forces to host an historic, international event April 26-29, 2011 in Orlando, Florida. Join thousands of other church planting leaders for a time of inspiration, encouragement, equipping and challenging. Our theme is “Missional Communities: Discovering Old Truths in New Paradigms.” Regardless of your current approach (attractional, incarnational, mega, multi, micro, etc), you will be challenged to apply old truths and principles in fresh ways to reach those far from God. Click here to learn more about the conference. The super super early bird rate of $99 is only good for a few more weeks. Register now!

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Like Father, Like Son.

David — Thu, 13 May 2010 02:43:32 +0000

Anthony working on his homework at Panera, complete with coffee and a laptop.

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North American Church Planting Missiology — Pastoral or Apostolic? More from JD Payne.

David — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:11:04 +0000

via jdpayne.org

JD Payne just added a third post in his series on North American church-planting missiology. In addition to going deeper into some of the theological and historical issues involved, he’s also posted a link to a Powerpoint and some audio from a recent presentation.

Good stuff!

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Photos from Launch of Verve! Church in Las Vegas

David — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:37:03 +0000

Great opening weekend for the Verve Church in Las Vegas!

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»Church Planting Missiology — Pastoral or Apostolic

David — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:16:44 +0000

JD Payne has started an interesting series of articles on the missiology used in North American church planting. His question: are we primarily coming from a pastoral missiology, or an apostolic one?

I’m one of three church planting missionaries in my family. My brother Steve works with new churches among the Oromo people in Ethiopia with CMF International, and my wife’s twin sister and her husband are planting church in rural Paraguay with SIM. Our strategy when we planted our church in Bakersfield in 2003 was definitely pastoral, and theirs was definitely apostolic.

Since then, we’ve shared some interesting conversations, and I’ve come to agree with JD Payne that we need to rethink not just our strategy, but the missiology from which that strategy flows. That’s led me to an ongoing dialogue with colleagues who are planting churches internationally.

As part of that dialogue, I’m helping coordinate a workshop track on church planting at the National Missionary Convention, and am working with Doug Lucas of Team Expansion on casting a vision for 1000 new church plants in the US and 1000 church planting movements worldwide between now and 2020.

Meanwhile, our church in Bakersfield has participated with Stadia in the launching of two other congregations — one Anglo and one Latino — as well as starting a small missional community in a low-income apartment complex a few miles from our Sunday morning campus. I’m still wrestling with the issues, but that hasn’t stopped us from planting churches while we wrestle!

If you’re a church planter, how would you describe your own missiology — pastoral or apostolic? What thoughts do you have on how this has worked in your context?

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Learnings @ Leadership Network: New Spotlight Webinar Sticky Churches

David — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:30:11 +0000

Leadership Network is hosting an upcoming free webinar by Larry Osborne on “sticky churches.” This is good stuff for churches that are struggling with assimilation that leads to spiritual growth.Here’s a quick excerpt from the Learnings Blog at Leadership Network that describes the webinar…

Yesterday I spent an hour with Dino Rizzo, Eric Swanson and Rick Rusaw talking about churches that serve on our monthly webinar, The Spotlight. It was a great discussion, and it was really neat when they were each taking notes from the others’ stories! If you missed it, don’t fret – you can download the recording and a copy of the notes (in slide format) here.

On April 14, 2010, The Spotlight will feature Larry Osborne of North Coast Church in Vista, CA. Larry is the author of several books, including Sticky Church (Zondervan, 2008) and his latest, Sticky Teams (Zondervan, 2010). The webinar is a one-hour, online presentation that lets participants interact with the presenter in a Q&A format. Got a question for Larry about stickiness in your church? Go ahead and email it to me now — we’ll try to answer as many questions as possible on Wednesday, April 14 at 3:00 pm Central (convert to my time zone ). The webinar is free, but you must register to participate, so register now!

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Brigada: Resources, trends, and motivation to fulfill the Great Commission

David — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:51:25 +0000

via brigada.org

My friend Doug Lucas from Team Expansion has a great blog called Brigada (that started 15 years ago!) for missions and missionaries. This link, to a film about a mission team who got bumped off of a flight only to see everyone on that flight killed when the plane crashed, is pretty amazing.

Doug is guy who really gets it when it comes to church planting and missions. We serve together on a team encouraging worldwide and US church planting as part of Restoration Revolution.

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Reading Matthew 2 as part of our “28 Days Later” Easter Preparation

David — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:53:29 +0000

Our church, Life Journey Christian Church in Bakersfield, California, just started a 28-Day time of preparation for Easter called 28-Days Later. No zombies, but definitely dead man walking. http://read.ly/e/1VV

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Plaza Iglesia Cristiana starts tomorrow!

David — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 03:01:15 +0000

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Worshiping & praying in prep for tomorrow’s grand opening of Plaza Iglesia Cristiana in Bakersfield, CA. 11 AM. www.plazaiglesia.com

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